RICHARD MAHER Pen and Sword £25 ISBN 9781036134099 REVIEWED BY Stephen Griffin Stephen Griffin formerly lectured in History at the University of Limerick and is currently employed by Limerick Civic Trust. The life and activities of Sir Charles Wogan will be familiar to anyone knowledgeable on the Irish diaspora in eighteenth-century Europe. Yet for all … Read more
PÁDRAIG LENIHAN Four Courts Press €40 ISBN 9781801511728 REVIEWED BY Chris Doyle Chris Doyle is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Galway. Ireland was torn asunder by violent conflict between the years 1641 and 1653. This prolonged era of war is known variously as the Cromwellian Conquest, the English Civil War, the Confederate … Read more
DERMOT KEOGH, OWEN McGEE and MERVYN O’DRISCOLL (eds) Cork University Press €49 ISBN 9781782050599 Reviewed by Brian Hanley The Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi has argued that key to understanding the impact that Irish republicans made between 1919 and 1921 is that they ‘were led by people with a sophisticated understanding of the global balance of … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald Irish history: strange but true is concerned with all that is unusual and weird in Irish history, like St Patrick’s triumph over Caoránach, an oilliphéist condemned to the bottom of Lough Derg. These water-snakes appear regularly in Irish folklore and could cause significant flooding and other natural disasters. These were not simply … Read more
National Gallery of Ireland Ends October 2026; free admission By Donal Fallon Last April I went on a sort of Beckett pilgrimage across Paris. There was Montparnasse Cemetery, smaller but no less rewarding than the celebrated Père Lachaise. Simone de Beauvoir and Serge Gainsbourg may bring more visitors to Montparnasse, but there was plenty of … Read more